frankie louise
@wearethebeyond
frankie louise
@wearethebeyond
The search for rules and essences, the obsession with process and sculpting, is ultimately a search for explanations . Explanations are the holy grail of the West—they are what we search for in science, business, and life. Consider the questions we tend to ask any successful person: “Can you explain how you got here? Wha
... See moreWe are especially attracted by the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh, who says that “right understanding” comes from being in the stream, while previous “knowledge” acts like an “obstacle” to it. We must all be on the same Buddhist track, which stresses the importance of transcending our previous knowledge, even knowledge of ourselves.
does knowledge get in the way of knowing?
If you are searching for sequences instead of essences , you are doing that so that you can build up intuition in place of process .
In a pre-AI world, in order to build an application, you needed to reduce your idea to a process—a set of rules by which your software would operate to accomplish the goal you set. Sometimes this w
... See morehave a term for this. I call it bending reality. CHAPTER 6 BEND REALITY Where We Identify the Ultimate State of Human Existence I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. —ALAN WATTS, ZEN PHILOSOPHER LOVE AND ITS CAREER REPERCUSSIONS I was hardly a poster boy
... See moreEsther talks about creation / production in here. Important to transcribe.